events.js:174 throw er; -> Error: write EPIPE

Hi, I was recently updated to Windows 10 so I’m not entirely sure what changed between Win7 -> Win10 that caused my protractor tests to stop working. I was hoping someone could help me figure out or where to look to help debug this issue!

Bug report

• Node Version: v10.16.0
• Protractor Version: 5.4.2
• Angular Version: 7.1.4
• Browser(s): Firefox
• Operating System and Version: Win10 x64 bit
• Your protractor configuration file:

exports.config = {
  allScriptsTimeout: 120000,
  specs: [
    './e2e/**/*.e2e-spec.ts'
  ],
  suites: {
    homepage: './e2e/homepage/**/*.e2e-spec.ts',
    createProposal: './e2e/create-proposal/**/*.e2e-spec.ts',
    updateProposal: './e2e/update-proposal/**/*.e2e-spec.ts',
    summaryProposal: './e2e/summary-proposal/**/*.e2e-spec.ts',
    costEstimator: './e2e/cost-estimator/**/*.e2e-spec.ts'
  },
  capabilities: {
    // 'browserName': 'chrome'
    browserName: 'firefox',
    marionette: true,
    acceptInsecureCerts : true,
  },
  SELENIUM_PROMISE_MANAGER: false,
  getPageTimeOut: 30000,
  directConnect: true,
  baseUrl: 'http://localhost:8080/',
  framework: 'jasmine',
  jasmineNodeOpts: {
    showColors: true,
    defaultTimeoutInterval: 9999999,
    print: function() {}
  },
  onPrepare() {
    require('ts-node').register({
      project: 'e2e/tsconfig.e2e.json'
    });
    jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(new SpecReporter({ spec: { displayStacktrace: true } }));
  }
};

• A relevant example test: ng e2e
• Output from running the test:

[10:53:46] E/downloader - undefined
[10:53:46] I/update - chromedriver: file exists C:\Infrastructure\Angular\idl-cost-diff\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\webdriver-manager\selenium\chromedriver_75.0.3770.140.zip
[10:53:46] I/update - chromedriver: unzipping chromedriver_75.0.3770.140.zip
[10:53:46] I/update - chromedriver: chromedriver_75.0.3770.140.exe up to date
events.js:174
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: write EPIPE
    at ChildProcess.target._send (internal/child_process.js:762:20)
    at ChildProcess.target.send (internal/child_process.js:634:19)
    at Observable.rxjs_1.Observable.obs [as _subscribe] (C:\Infrastructure\Angular\idl-cost-diff\node_modules\@angular-devkit\build-angular\src\utils\run-module-as-observable-fork.js:57:23)
    at Observable._trySubscribe (C:\Infrastructure\Angular\idl-cost-diff\node_modules\rxjs\internal\Observable.js:44:25)
    at Observable.subscribe (C:\Infrastructure\Angular\idl-cost-diff\node_modules\rxjs\internal\Observable.js:30:22)
    at C:\Infrastructure\Angular\idl-cost-diff\node_modules\rxjs\internal\util\subscribeTo.js:22:31
    at Object.subscribeToResult (C:\Infrastructure\Angular\idl-cost-diff\node_modules\rxjs\internal\util\subscribeToResult.js:10:45)
    at MergeMapSubscriber._innerSub (C:\Infrastructure\Angular\idl-cost-diff\node_modules\rxjs\internal\operators\mergeMap.js:82:29)
    at MergeMapSubscriber._tryNext (C:\Infrastructure\Angular\idl-cost-diff\node_modules\rxjs\internal\operators\mergeMap.js:76:14)
    at MergeMapSubscriber._next (C:\Infrastructure\Angular\idl-cost-diff\node_modules\rxjs\internal\operators\mergeMap.js:59:18)
    at MergeMapSubscriber.Subscriber.next (C:\Infrastructure\Angular\idl-cost-diff\node_modules\rxjs\internal\Subscriber.js:67:18)
    at MergeMapSubscriber.notifyNext (C:\Infrastructure\Angular\idl-cost-diff\node_modules\rxjs\internal\operators\mergeMap.js:92:26)
    at InnerSubscriber._next (C:\Infrastructure\Angular\idl-cost-diff\node_modules\rxjs\internal\InnerSubscriber.js:28:21)
    at InnerSubscriber.Subscriber.next (C:\Infrastructure\Angular\idl-cost-diff\node_modules\rxjs\internal\Subscriber.js:67:18)
    at C:\Infrastructure\Angular\idl-cost-diff\node_modules\rxjs\internal\util\subscribeToPromise.js:7:24
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)
Emitted 'error' event at:
    at process.nextTick (internal/child_process.js:766:39)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:61:11)

[jkuek]

I just tried node 12.13.0 and 13.1.0 and both versions exhibited the same “throw er” issue.

[Sathishchary]

I am also getting the same issue with v12.16.1.